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Eight Questions on Convergent Friends: An Interview with Robin Mohr
Robin Mohr is a member of San Francisco (Calif.) Meeting in Pacific Yearly Meeting.
Robin Mohr recently moved to Philadelphia with her husband, Chris Mohr, and their two sons. In June 2011 she started work as the Executive Secretary of the Friends World Committee for Consultation-Section of the Americas (fwccamericas.org). She still blogs occasionally at robinmsf.blogspot.com.
What Will Get Us Ready
If we are to reach and garner the present day seekers who exist in every neighborhood, persons who are disillusioned […]
One of the most influential Quakers of the 20th century, Rufus Jones was a historian and theologian as well as a philosopher.
Posted in: FeaturesIntroduction: New England Yearly Meeting Friends Explore their Relationship with Friends United Meeting
A series on New England Yearly Meeting’s discernment over the challenges of their relationship with Friends United Meeting, and with […]
Martin Kelley is editor of Friends Journal.
Posted in: FeaturesQuaker Profiles: Carole and Ray Treadway
Friends from birth, Ray and Carole Treadway each have a different Quaker family history. Carole looks back to many generations […]
Kara Newell, who contributes occasional "Quaker Profile" columns to Friends Journal, is a member and presiding clerk of Reedwood Friends Church in Portland, Oreg.
Posted in: FeaturesCan Friends of diversified thinking remain united?
What a great week the Gathering was! I felt like a country boy attending his first county fair. There were […]
Eldon Morey is a member of Brainerd (Minn.) Meeting.
Posted in: FeaturesBeyond Words: Reflections on the 2006 Section of the Americas Annual Meeting
While walking down the cobblestone streets of Antigua, Guatemala, I started to reflect on what the 2006 Annual Meeting meant […]
Loida E. Fernàndez G. is executive secretary of the Committee of Latin American Friends (COAL). She is a member of the General Meeting of Mexican Friends, Cd. Victoria Monthly Meeting.
Posted in: FeaturesLearning from Salvadoran Friends
After the 2006 FWCC Section of the Americas meeting in Guatemala, we joined a small group of other U.S. Friends […]
Greg Woods, a member of Columbia (Mo.) Meeting, currently serves as an FWCC representative for Illinois Yearly Meeting and as a clerk of the FWCC Section of the Americas Youth Committee. Susan Lee Barton, a member of Clear Creek Meeting in Richmond, Ind., is the Midwest Field Secretary of FWCC. She has received a traveling minute from her monthly meeting and from Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting referring to her "ministry of bringing people closer together and building connections so that all can deepen their experience of God."
Posted in: FeaturesA Snapshot of Friends in the Americas
Are Friends growing or shrinking? The answer, of course, is, “It all depends”—on where, over what time, and by how […]
Margaret Fraser, executive secretary of FWCC Section of the Americas, is a member of Swarthmore (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: FeaturesConvergence among Friends: From the ‘Kitchen’ to the ‘Parlor’
Have you ever sensed that the earliest Quakers had a fire that seems to be missing now? What do we […]
Robin Mohr, a member of San Francisco (Calif.) Meeting, has a weblog, "What Canst Thou Say?" at http://www.robinmsf.blogspot.com. C. Wess Daniels, a member of Barberton (Ohio) Friends Church, currently lives in Los Angeles where he attends Fuller Seminary; he blogs at http://www.gatheringinlight.com.
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Quaker Identity Crisis
As a child I was a constant attendee at annual Gatherings of Friends General Conference. I *have many fond memories […]
Liz Wine, a member of University Friends Meeting in Wichita, Kans., is a social worker in child welfare. She feels a calling to continue the dialogue among the Quaker branches.
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